The Stafford Township School District is offering an innovative program designed to address and foster multiple intelligences while simultaneously attending to the implementation of the core curriculum content standards in visual and performing arts.   The core curriculum content standards mandate that all students acquire skills that increase aesthetic awareness in dance, music, theater and visual arts. Students are required to create, to produce, to critique, to design and to identify the historical, social and cultural influences and traditions that have generated artistic accomplishments.

Believing that students demonstrate intelligence in a variety of different ways, the Stafford Township School District will provide numerous opportunities to develop these multiple intelligences. By extending offerings in visual and performing arts the district will better promote and foster the development of these intelligences and more accurately attend to the needs, interests and abilities of all students.

School choice program students in grades 5 and 6 will be offered opportunities to participate in a variety of visual and performing arts activities including theatre, dance, improvisation, choreography, rhythmic analysis, musical composition, and communications.  Survey courses will be made available for all fifth grade students and opportunities for selected studies will be provided to all sixth grade students. Students with identified interests and abilities will also participate in extended day experiences designed to enhance and extend specific skills and talents.

PARENT INFORMATION CENTER:  (609) 978-5700 ext. 1420

E-mail: lcoyne@staffordschools.org (Lori Coyne, Director of Professional Development and Instruction)

Web site:  www.staffordschools.org